ice on the wire
icicles teardropped on the telephone wire-
varnished with its translucent tapered coat
delicately sheathed to its descending arch
it sways from pole to pole - highwire to wire
conformed to the stitching of the studded rain
tightroped to the felted snow –
braided and strewn to admire
like winter's necklace briefly worn
with one eyelash brushed /a fragment
of a fractured second /fragile chains of frozen coils
shivered and broke its tempered hold
/drapes of shards sliced through the pillowed sky
and formed a threshold on the sojourned road-
impaled pieces of miniscule prisms shattered and splayed
then suddenly swept by the wind's deliberate gust
- like an eagle swooping for it's destined prey
reminiscent of a poet's verse- momentarily
balanced on the wire - befallen to nature's dust.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AB XA XX XX XX XX XB CX XC |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 776 |
Words | 129 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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